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The MFA at EWU

Our MFA program, established in 1978, is a two-year, full residency, studio-based program featuring intensive study of fiction and poetry.

We offer a wide range of fully-funded positions.

05/20/2025

Friday night at Spark Central 💥 we're thrilled to welcome poet and EWU MFA alum Cody Smith back to Lilac City! His debut collection Gulf was a Summerlee Book Prize co-winner. His second book of poems -- River Hymnal -- dropped in February. Come get inspired by a rising voice in poetry!

05/06/2025

Our own Sarah Rooney was recognized with the Community Service Award at EWU's Student Leadership Awards last night. Her tireless work with WITC and Poetry After Dark, running Foray and her many other efforts in service to Spokane were mentioned. WITC Student Director Bruce Asper was also nominated for Student Leader of the Year. The EWU MFA is different.

04/16/2025

Join us Friday evening at Spark Central for a reading by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, the author of Elita. The debut novel was released in January and Kirkus Reviews said the novel is "immensely satisfying as both a mystery and an unblinkered look at working motherhood." Her short fiction book, What We Do with the Wreckage, win the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Come on out!

04/07/2025

As part of Get Lit!, this Thurs, April 10th at 5:30 pm at Spark Central our Writers in the Community program is having a Launch Party for this year's anthology of poems and fiction submitted by community students. Join us!

03/19/2025

What a collaboration! EWU x Spokane Arts along with Spokane's Poet Laureate x . We are excited to announce Mery and Bruce will be teaching weekly poetry and fiction classes at Airway Heights Correction Institute in the Spring.

03/17/2025

Our cohort is doing great things. was just named a finalist in thd Kentucky Visions short story contest. This is the second year in a row we've had a finalist. Last year, held this honor. Congrats, Daniel!

03/07/2025

We are excited to have Carolyn Kuebler join us by Zoom on Friday, March 7th at 7 pm as our next Visiting Writer! Her debut novel, Liquid, Fragile, Perishable was published in May, 2024 by Melville House. Her story, Wildflower Season (Massachusetts Review) won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Essay. Please email basper at ewu.edu for a link! A recording will be available on our YouTube channel at a later date!

02/12/2025

Danusha Lameris will be be joining us as a Visiting Writer by Zoom on Friday evening at 7 pm. Lameris' third book of poems, Blade by Blade, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2024. She has been a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and winner of the 2021 National California Book Award. Plesse email basper at ewu.edu for link. A recording will be available at a later date.

01/29/2025

Voice Over is back! This Saturday at Patera Lounge from 6 to 9 p. 1507 E. Sprague Ave. Come listen to our fiction writers and poets step up to the open mic.

11/18/2024

Join us this Friday, November 22nd, at 7:30 PM for an evening with Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Her story collection, Likes, was a finalist for the Story Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. All are welcome!

11/16/2024

MFA Poets and Fiction Writers paused making words work for a night to watch the game from the party pod.

11/13/2024

Voice Over is this Saturday, November 16th at 6 PM at Lunarium! Come on out and listen as current and past students, and maybe some professors, read their masterpieces.

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